Three stars out of four

4:02 AM,
Jan. 14, 2013

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If you've got it, flaunt it. And one thing that Hill Auditorium has that not every concert hall does is a kick-butt organ with roots that go back to 1893. The Frieze Memorial Organ- it's named for Henry Simmons Frieze, a Latin professor, occasional interim president and principal founder of the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan in the late 19th Century - has nearly 7,600 speaking pipes split between 120 ranks behind the stage and four additional ranks in the echo division above the central skylight. At full throttle, the sound can be heard all the way to middle earth. There ...